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Ansar-e Hezbollah
Ansar-e Hezbollah (Persian: انصار حزبالله, lit. 'Supporters of the Party of God') is a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran. According to the Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism, it is a "semi-official quasi-clandestine organization of a paramilitary character that performs vigilante duties".
Hossein Allahkaram, one of the organization's known leaders has described it as "groups of young war veterans who, based on their revolutionary-Islamic duty, claim to be carrying out the Imam's will and rectifying existing shortcomings in Iran".
In 2018, the group was targeted with sanctions by the US for its involvement "in the violent suppression of Iranian citizens" and for working with the Basij carrying out attacks on student protesters using "knives, tear gas and electric batons".
Ansar-e Hizbullah, or Followers of the Party of God or more literally Helpers of Hizbullah in Persian, is said to be a semi-official, paramilitary group formed in 1995. Unlike some other paramilitary groups, Ansar-e Hizbullah undergoes formal training.
It is thought to be financed and protected by many senior government clerics. It is often characterized as a vigilante group as they use force but are not part of government law enforcement, although it may not meet the strict definition of the word inasmuch as the group pledge loyalty to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and is thought to be protected by him.
It has been described as an "offshoot" or "vigilante associate" of the Iranian Hezbollah, a loose-knit movement of groups formed at the time of the Iranian Revolution to assist the Ayatollah Khomeini and his forces in consolidating power.
Most of the members of Ansar e Hezbollah are either members of the Basij militias or veterans of the Iran–Iraq War.
The organization is described as Khomeinist and composed of poorer classes of the Iranian society. It advocates the pricinple of the "permanent revolution", which regards the Iranian Revolution as incomplete and seeks to realize the principles of revolutionary Islam in Iran. It adheres to the principle of ‘enjoining good and forbidding wrong’ which derives from Quran, and justifies its actions by the need of combatting immoral and un-Islamic activities. Ansar-e Hezbollah also advocates the pricinple of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, by which it argues that the political legitimacy of the Supreme Leader of Iran derives from his religious credential and position as an Islamic jurists. The organization is anti-Western, arguing that the West seeks to undermine Iran by military invasion, as well as a 'cultural invasion' and soft power imperialism. Despite its conservative orientation, it is critical of the Iranian right-wing politicians, attacking the old guard as "the right-wing monopolists".
Ansar-e Hezbollah
Ansar-e Hezbollah (Persian: انصار حزبالله, lit. 'Supporters of the Party of God') is a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran. According to the Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism, it is a "semi-official quasi-clandestine organization of a paramilitary character that performs vigilante duties".
Hossein Allahkaram, one of the organization's known leaders has described it as "groups of young war veterans who, based on their revolutionary-Islamic duty, claim to be carrying out the Imam's will and rectifying existing shortcomings in Iran".
In 2018, the group was targeted with sanctions by the US for its involvement "in the violent suppression of Iranian citizens" and for working with the Basij carrying out attacks on student protesters using "knives, tear gas and electric batons".
Ansar-e Hizbullah, or Followers of the Party of God or more literally Helpers of Hizbullah in Persian, is said to be a semi-official, paramilitary group formed in 1995. Unlike some other paramilitary groups, Ansar-e Hizbullah undergoes formal training.
It is thought to be financed and protected by many senior government clerics. It is often characterized as a vigilante group as they use force but are not part of government law enforcement, although it may not meet the strict definition of the word inasmuch as the group pledge loyalty to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and is thought to be protected by him.
It has been described as an "offshoot" or "vigilante associate" of the Iranian Hezbollah, a loose-knit movement of groups formed at the time of the Iranian Revolution to assist the Ayatollah Khomeini and his forces in consolidating power.
Most of the members of Ansar e Hezbollah are either members of the Basij militias or veterans of the Iran–Iraq War.
The organization is described as Khomeinist and composed of poorer classes of the Iranian society. It advocates the pricinple of the "permanent revolution", which regards the Iranian Revolution as incomplete and seeks to realize the principles of revolutionary Islam in Iran. It adheres to the principle of ‘enjoining good and forbidding wrong’ which derives from Quran, and justifies its actions by the need of combatting immoral and un-Islamic activities. Ansar-e Hezbollah also advocates the pricinple of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, by which it argues that the political legitimacy of the Supreme Leader of Iran derives from his religious credential and position as an Islamic jurists. The organization is anti-Western, arguing that the West seeks to undermine Iran by military invasion, as well as a 'cultural invasion' and soft power imperialism. Despite its conservative orientation, it is critical of the Iranian right-wing politicians, attacking the old guard as "the right-wing monopolists".